Chapter 3111: Suspicion, Death of the Body

As for the attacker's Soul, Xia Duo was not yet strong enough to seize a soul remotely, not even with the help of the Computing Power Pool; he had merely forcibly shattered the attacker's consciousness.

But given the subjective nature of a Psionic Mage's power, a collapse of consciousness likely meant death.

Just as he was worrying about whether the Psionic Master beside the attacker would immediately flee upon seeing this situation, a massive consciousness squeezed in through the gap he had personally opened between the Computing Power Pool and Reality.

This situation was highly unusual!

Normally, no single consciousness should have made him feel such a sense of vastness, but now this feeling had truly and vividly appeared; Xia Duo immediately realized that this was likely not just a consciousness!

It was likely a Mental Image World that had surged in, carrying psionic energy along with it!

He had anticipated several scenarios for encountering a Psionic Master, but he had never considered this one: launching an attack directly with a Mental Image World was far too insane for any Psionic Master.

This reminded him of Mohawi before, who had also been like this, risking mutual destruction just to drag him into a Mental Image World!

However, the previous Mohawi had only dragged him alone into the Mental Image World, while this Psionic Master, suspected to be Aokesi, was actually trying to drag everyone connected to the Computing Power Pool into the Mental Image World.

This wasn't just insanity; it was practically suicide.

Not to mention simulating motion within the scope of relativistic physics; scientific research might be able to achieve that level, but a game almost certainly could not.

After saying this, Xia Shao's eyes lost their focus, and as he was about to collapse to the ground, Mohawi hurriedly stepped forward to support Xia Shao's avatar body, then called another colleague to help escort him to the Xiu Xi Shi that Xia Shao had mentioned.

Such a sudden turn of events even caused Xia Shao to feel a moment of shock and stagnation, but he immediately reacted—he had to stop the opponent!

And now, the Psionic Mage that Xia Shao had encountered seemed even weaker than Lvbinglong, but because Xia Shao had not provided his own true consciousness to participate in the construction of this Mental Image World.

He would like to see what kind of memories this insane Lingneng Master could evolve for him in real-time!

If Xia Shao did not have the protection of the 【World Editor】, he might have exposed his own perception of Mohawi, which of course would include the true experiences of Lvbinglong that he understood.

Because a Psionic Mage cannot fight against Reality, he must understand the true rules of reality that he had never understood before; if he cannot understand or accept them, then the foundation of psionic energy ceases to exist.

But as a visitor, he was very clear that all of this was fake, so becoming detached from the experience was almost inevitable.

When Xia Shao designed the 【World Editor】, he did not input all the reality rules he had mastered; it was merely a simplified model. If it were just that, it actually would not affect the functioning of the Mental Image World.

"Hmm."

Under these circumstances, the memory of Lvbinglong, evolved in real-time based on his own cognition and the possible embellishments of the Lingneng Master, was almost flawless.

And when the cognitions of a Psionic Mage and an Arcane Mage blend to jointly construct a Mental Image World containing both their perceptions, the Arcane Mage actually has the advantage.

At that time, the Mental Image World would almost only have one outcome: collapse. For a Psionic Mage, the Mental Image World is more like their true self; the collapse of the Mental Image World is equivalent to a Cognitive Collapse, equivalent to Psionic Loss of Control, and they would undoubtedly die.

Similar to 3D games on Earth, so-called realistic physical collisions are basically based on rigid body motion under classical mechanics; anyone with even a little bit of physics foundation can see the irrationality in them.

With so many connected users, although they were all Arcane Mages, their understanding of Magic was not necessarily uniform. Dragging so many variables into the Mental Image World could easily collide to create brand-new rules. (Not creating rules that never existed before, but discovering rules that had not been discovered before.)

The biggest difference between the 【World Editor】 and a real human consciousness lies in the handling of black boxes. Since true reality still contains a large amount of the unknown, anyone's perception of this world can be said to be incomparably crude.

It's just like knowing an enemy is charging over with a bomb; instead of running away immediately, would you really charge up to engage in hand-to-hand combat?

He was very certain that he was currently in a Mental Image World jointly constructed by himself and the Lingneng Master, and doing anything would not have an impact on the outside world.

Therefore, he did not hesitate too much and immediately took the initiative to meet it, actively contacting the opponent's Mental Image World through the connection speed of the mental level, which transcends physical distance.

So everything he saw at the moment appeared extremely ridiculous, feeling like a tourist visiting a historical theme park where the actors were performing with great effort.

The Mental Image World was about to collapse.

Xia Shao himself actually never felt any moment of losing consciousness; in his perception, his consciousness was always continuous, but this was also the biggest flaw.

This made the Mental Image World fundamentally unable to provide explanations for those laws that Xia Shao had not set in the 【World Editor】, thus appearing full of loopholes.

At least for now, Xia Shao's determination was far from high enough to sacrifice his life for the Computing Power Pool.

And on the other side.

At the same time, he issued a final order to Hewaisita and Mohawi in the Gateway Control Hall—

Clearly, there was no Psionic Mage in Zhamu Dasi at present who could contain reality within a Mental Image World.

Just then, Mohawi on the side asked with great concern: "Master, shall we go to the Xiu Xi Shi now?"

It simply couldn't stand up to scrutiny!

Once in the Xiu Xi Shi, Xia Shao caught Mohawi off guard, subdued the opponent, and then proceeded to search his memories without the slightest courtesy under the opponent's terrified gaze.

Having clearly made contact with the Lingneng Master's Mental Image World, yet it was still as if there had been no contact—how could this be possible?

But a real human consciousness will automatically place a black-box patch on those unknowns to rationalize any contradictions it discovers.

This is also the fundamental reason why the more Arcane Mages enter the Mental Image World at the same time, the faster the Psionic Mage dies.

Not only were there errors in the details of the memories, but the world itself also revealed a thick sense of unreality!

But reality has no "what ifs." If he weren't carrying the 【World Editor】, that virtual world protection at the consciousness level, how could Xia Shao have faced the Lingneng Master's Mental Image World directly?

This is also the biggest difference between a Psionic Mage and an Arcane Mage; the former's perception of the world contains more black-box components, while the latter has fewer. After all, the latter is based on reality, and the reality rules explored are more numerous, so there are naturally fewer black boxes.

"Immediately disconnect all grid-connected users, and raise the security level of other local area networks. Wait for my next order. Mohawi, take me to the Xiu Xi Shi!"

And now, Xia Shao felt like he was playing a low-quality virtual reality game; although it looked very shiny on the surface, as long as you delved into it a little, the inside was just a pile of shit.

Very soon, Xia Shao saw what he wanted to see—a history of an Elite Mage's growth that was detailed to the point of being impossible to be more detailed, and it was very close to the true experience of Mohawi that he had learned before, but fake is fake!

Xia Shao nodded slightly, then ignored the others in the Gateway Control Hall and walked straight toward the Xiu Xi Shi outside, with Mohawi following behind.

If a Psionic Mage's Mental Image World could accommodate enough Arcane Mages to explore at the same time, then what difference would there be between this Mental Image World and reality?

Moreover, once such a massive incident of connected users' consciousnesses being trapped occurred, Xia Shao, as the person directly in charge of the Computing Power Pool project, would have to take responsibility for it.

Xia Shao certainly cared about the follow-up impact of the Computing Power Pool accident, but the prerequisite was that he still existed. If he didn't even exist anymore, what was the point of worrying about the follow-up impact?

Although he was very certain that no Lingneng Master could trap a large number of Arcane Mages at the same time and would ultimately bring about their own destruction, what about time?